COnnexion Science & Art

In April 2016, the Charles Gerhardt Montpellier Institute (ICGM), the Institute of Electronics and Systems (IES), the National School of Architecture of Montpellier (ENSAM) and the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts MOCO, decided to collaborate in order to conduct discussions and experiments on Research, Science and Art, with a view to promoting within their respective structures, common projects at the crossroads of these themes. This is the birth of the COSA group, COnnexion Science & Art.

The aim of such an initiative is to promote strong interaction and shared reflection between researchers, scientists and artists, and to support artistic creativity.

To do this, the group’s collaborative projects are undertaken in several directions:

• workshops on subject matter and biomimicry within the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts MOCO (pedagogical participation and presentations of final achievements);
• thematic working groups to create dialogue and creation between the artists and scientists involved (e.g. material and sound in the process of being formed);
• the pooling of know-how for artistic creations (e.g. within the framework of the Porosity https://www.porosity-art.com/) network).
• events on common arts-sciences themes (evening screening/debate, exhibition of scientific images, exchanges and interventions of artists in local scientific institutions, participation in congresses, cultural Mondays of the UM, Brain Week…).